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Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
Visions of Empire Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film - Praeger Series in Political Communication Author:Stephen Prince This volume explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events. Prince discusses Hollywood film produc... more »tions of the 1980s in terms of salient political issues of the period, including anxieties about declining U.S. military power, the wars in Central America and the prospects for U.S. intervention, the legacy of the Vietnam War, and urban decay.« less